Restaurants like Applebee's, TGI Friday's, Chili's, and the like tend to have lots of menu items that are scarcely better than fast food. Their menus are full o

Restaurants like Applebee's, TGI Friday's, Chili's, and the like tend to have lots of menu items that are scarcely better than fast food. Their menus are full of over-salted, frozen, deep-fried things like fries, onion rings, mozzarella sticks, etc. that have no redeeming culinary value. There may be some reasonable items at these places, but a lot of their food really is just dressed up versions of what you might find in a high school cafeteria.